The magnetic beads belonged to Araya’s nine-year-old sister Isla who got them from a classmate in a “school swapsie”.
Mum Hannah had no idea Araya was ingesting the beads after Isla left them on the back seat of their car. She only realised something was seriously wrong when Araya started throwing up on Friday, February 21.
Hannah rushed her to Northampton General Hospital where she was initially treated for gastroenteritis.
Araya was discharged but was rushed back to A&E when she started choking in the hospital car park. An X-ray revealed the youngster had swallowed four balls which had clustered in her stomach and she was transferred to Leicester Royal Infirmary.
"I was panicking," said 29-year-old Hannah. “We were urgently transferred to Leicester Royal Infirmary and she had surgery that morning.
"There were six magnets in total which were stuck together in a clump.”
The magnets had caused Araya’s intestine to close and it destroyed that part of her bowel, which was starving her.
"There was another hole that needed repairing on the other side of her intestine, which is attempting to be done using a stoma bag,” Hannah said.
Hannah, from Overstone, Northamptonshire, is demanding a ban on the sale of the magnetic balls.
Speaking from her daughter's hospital bed, she said: "I don’t want anyone to go through this, it is every parent’s worst nightmare.
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